Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie - A Tisket a Tasket (Norman Granz Jazz in Montreux 1979)

[@millie422]

Pure joy... Swing, groove, soul and connection. Don't it make you happy?

[@sommelierramon]

Very happy always and forever !

[@ahmad.tillery.1987]

You can tell Ella Fitzgerald really loved performing and interacting with the band. This was special and a treat to see.

[@davidsimms8633]

Ella the best female to sing ever, forever, absolutely no questionxx

[@jefferyneu3915]

There has never been a better pairing than Ella and Count Basie’s Orchestra!❤️

[@williamflinchum-qo6ch]

Checkout Ella and Louis Armstrong!😮😮

[@samosatler]

All the stated + Duke Ellington ... :)

[@maanso050]

Cuando conocí a Barbara Straisand pensé que era la voz femenina más hermosa pero es que aún no conocía a Ella… simplemente me dejó boquiabierto por su gran talento y su maravillosa voz!

[@sommelierramon]

@@williamflinchum-qo6ch X actly those 2 also

[@sommelierramon]

@@williamflinchum-qo6ch Yes

[@richardwhite3924]

I met both Ella Fitzgerald and Bill "Count" Basie on the same wonderful night at Small's Paradise in NYC's Harlem in 1960 when I was 8 years old. I always say that singing that one song at that jazz jam session with Basie playing the piano and Ella complimenting me afterwards was the night I became a jazz vocalist. We met many times after that night over the next 11 years until I went into the Army and on to Vietnam and they both were always kind and encouraging to me.

[@DeborahFESQF-jf4gw]

I dated him and his dad in Seattle as a teen! 👍🐝🦷♥️🐴🥯💸🌲🍓⭐️💸🏖️💲💲💲💲💲💲💲❤️♥️🧋🧋🧋🐝🐝👯‍♀️👍👯‍♀️👯‍♀️🐴👯‍♀️👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@nussimorosi4887]

😊😊😊

[@Vart-oi5df]

Why tf did you go to Vietnam?

[@LeeLee-tq6kk]

Ну и как Вьетнам, понравилось? Позор Америки это

[@RobertCarlBurns]

Dear Richard white, thank you for story,, thank you for your gift, thank you,, for being you

[@rayvalencia6726]

She always sounded so young! Her voice never aged!

[@FTorre-br1tx]

We all miss the great Ella. Love all of her music; her superb Bossa Nova recording is beautiful.

[@gertrudebuck366]

They were born to do what they did and they did it with such Joy and Ease!!

[@gloriachinea5180]

Amen

[@ВадимВиноградов-л4ф]

На благо жизни

[@dalvacastro6417]

😢os melhores se foram e, infelizmente não tiveram substitutos..

[@FordGreeneLawyer]

@@dalvacastro6417painfully anguishly true

[@massimilianoizzi9324]

Queen of Jazz

[@gabrielashkar9941]

Absolutely and incredibly delightful. Of course ‘A Tisket, a Tasket’ was the first hit for Fitzgerald but this must be a Scat version of the song. Ella was a master of Scat singing that was first mistakenly performed by Louis Armstrong as he once forgot the words of a song he was singing. Female vocalists in the 1930’s and beyond were valued by their ability to sound like horn instruments (trumpets & trombones etc) and, as revealed in this video, Ella was one of the greatest in this art. Altogether a wonderful performance with the Count Basie orchestra, that was one of the leading Jazz bands of the Swing era. Thank you for sharing this memorable video. 👍🏻

[@jamesprevard6555]

She was before my time...but time never stopped me from listening 2 the magic in her voice even as a kid growing up! Queen RIP.

[@peterblack3665]

Ella dropping scat lines perfectly in between the notes these stunning musicians are playing.....mind bending one of a kind performance ......guaranteed no rehearsal......

[@danbernstein4694]

I saw them perform together in the early seventies. Truly a once in a lifetime experience!

[@MrStatistik]

Amazing what one single person can contribute to our world. I humbly bow my head.

[@harryclarencealexander9161]

Amen

[@gertrudebuck366]

WHAT TALENT! UNSURPASSABLE!

[@joed5901]

A Classy Lady and great Singer with the best "The Count"

[@felicitybrach5770]

The young today have missed so much fantastic music! I have enjoyed all the era’s of music but the Count and Ella will always thrill me, along with their contemporaries of that time! There is nothing like this kind of jazz, for me!!!!

[@DeborahFESQF-jf4gw]

Thé Microsoft parties had good jazz noise and kid students!

[@gertrudebuck366]

WHAT TALENT! THESE ALL WERE THE GREATEST MUSICIANS THAT HAVE EVER LIVED!!

[@assassinationarchivesandre6272]

Back in 1979, for 12 minutes and 38 seconds, this venue in Montreux was the single best place to be in the entire world. Ella and Basie swinging the walls down. Sacred.

[@waltraudkoneczny5390]

In Frankfurt hab ich sie live erlebt. Bald nach Kriegsende. Im ZELT - weil Ffm. noch in Trümmern lag. Nach dem Konzert im Jazzkeller - unter den Trümmer.

[@tulaysinmaz9664]

Legend Ella fitzgerald & Count Bassie💯💯💯👍🏻👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@johnkingsley9525]

Watched her one night in a club on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood singing and having fun imitating a horn player -what a voice and a really never to forget wonderful experience.

[@johnwolf3294]

Ella was a gift to humanity.

[@charlesbarry971]

Two great legends Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie.

[@drumjunk1]

... not to mention the great Eric Dixon on tenor!

[@Currabell]

Pure musical genius on stage. In a league of their own.

[@alanrobertson5815]

Ôi

[@alanrobertson5815]

O

[@bofink5377]

This is what music really is about, having a very special moment together!!

[@SoCal_619]

In High School we brought in Count Basie's Orchestea led by Thad Jones. It was incredible.

[@larrymayer]

That horn section blew your hair back, I bet.

[@joed5901]

How did you manage to do that? I could imagine what it cost to bring them in!

[@SoCal_619]

​@@larrymayer Accurate! I was a metal head, and fell in love with Big Bands that night; I was 15 maybe. Went on to study Jazz drums in College ❤❤❤❤

[@SoCal_619]

​@@joed5901 We did a fundraiser for our Marching Band, and were blessed with Count Basie❤❤❤❤

[@joed5901]

@@SoCal_619 Fantastic! You know my Dad who is deceased now. I remember him having one or two albums of Count Basie this was back in the 1960's!

[@TheNeenaM]

Just so amazing and joyful

[@Savorist]

How? Literally how? No I'm legitimately asking how? How does it get better than Ella and Count making music for us?

[@irenemccann7032]

There will never be another Ella,she was the greatest.

[@leobottaini9508]

What a great talent Saw both in concert over 60 years ago. They don;t make music like that anymore. Happy to have lived during that era.

[@ClaudioAlbertoZuñigaGuarachi]

Right you are, that was the ART OF Jazz the resto is silence and very creative 😢

[@MrSvendKreiner]

Me too!

[@goodstick2126]

I grew up in Harlem New York in the 60s. All the old-timers would refer to them as Basie and Ella. My father with liquor on his breath would pick me up hold me in his arms scatting singing telling me how much he loved me. LOL

[@danielpoursac6931]

Ella & Count deux Monstres sacré deux légendes du Jazz & du Blues mais heureusement que l'ont peut encore les entendre de nos jours c'est toujours un plaisir naturellement de pouvoir se remémorer des instants magiques et inoubliables

[@pietrocastronovo4571]

This is the reason because I love the Jazz! Wonderful Ella Fitzgerald! Wonderful Count Basie and his orchestra! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝 Performance! Super!

[@charlesbarry971]

The immortal Count Basie. His music breathes. Ella Fitzgerald, the greatest.

[@marianitadengo1813]

Simply beautiful!

[@peterblack3665]

I would take this performance over the entire Top 40 songs on the charts at the moment...........

[@jonbower194]

If you want to realize the uniting beauty of Jazz and these wonderful musicians, just count how many languages are in these comments : ]

[@okkietrooy6841]

Ik zal een andere taal toevoegen. Wat een zangeres, wat een muzikanten, wat een humor, wat een plezier! I will add another language. What a great singer, musicians, humor and what a fun!

[@haydenwayne3710]

I never get tired of listening to their entire anthology!!!!

[@jazzweather]

Eric Dixon, one of the most underrated Saxophone player of all time. Love his tone, god it's so good! And all his riffs, are total badass!!

[@claramanana7463]

What a suite of sounds!

[@WildflowerMax]

That woman was such a talented musician and natural performer. My skat idol!

[@Alpavista]

Incroyable Ella dans cette séquence d'impro en 4-4 entre sax ténor et trombone

[@EamonnMorris-xf8et]

There never was another like her, and probably never will be. So much versatility, creativity, spontaneity, playfulness .. it's impossible to grab hold of - in the English language ... or in any language. That kind of genius is not something that can be put into words!

[@josemeza978]

0🎉🎉🎉❤ Qué,hermoso es,,oir ,,está,celebridad,gerard,,fichero,

[@Виктор-е2и1ж]

Рембрант джаза🎉

[@fabianvillalba2879]

Hay que escuchar a Marcedes Sosa.

[@mowgli553]

Je suis d'accord avec vous

[@randysandford4033]

Ella, the "Queen of Scat" and Count Basie together! A master class on real jazz. We miss their talent.

[@wernermatrisch2]

Thank you so much for this video !! Ella & Basie....two Giants ! The sound quality is fabulous !!!!

[@trevorelliston1]

Saw them in Concert at the London Royal Festival hall in the 1970’s. One of the best live performances I saw.

[@cheri238]

Marvelous!! Legends of greatness!!! ❤️ LOVE THIS ❤️ Count Basie and Ella along with other great Jazz musicians. Thank you.

[@oscarlee1000]

O ga ju Basie and Ella mo gbedi fun yin

[@cheri238]

@@oscarlee1000 Thank you❤️

[@Michelle-7887]

Amazing performer ! She was unique, the greatest Ella.

[@vitoscarpitta9751]

Questi grandi maestri un vero DONO a tutta l'umanità, non ci sono parole per apprezzarli. Grazie per essere esistiti

[@ericanilsson5572]

This is perhabs one of the best jazzjams.... ❤

[@92missymoo]

the tone of count basies piano was indeed wonderful to listen to ..and then you have the most amazing voice of ella fitzgerald singing with this fantastic pianist and his band of course ., glorious..

[@Виктор-е2и1ж]

Ме не очень нравится что россияне впитывают шедевры НАС невозможно победить мы по-доброму восхищаемся и любим прекрасное во всем и поэтому РОССИЯНЕ будем жить❤

[@airisbinyamini5412]

Incredible! They don't teach this in school 👏🏽👏🏽

[@jameswoods4793]

That was beyond fantastic. Absolutely amazing. What a great lady.

[@philsarkol6443]

The best of the best....a memorable concert at Montreux 1979! All are artists on stage, the connection with the public, an explosion of musicality by Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie as a reminder of how to swing!!

[@shirleyclemmer3299]

I could listen to these two all day….and have! Almost wore out my LP. So uplifting. Love, love love it!!!

[@ВладимирТелепнев-х5ъ]

Величайшие музыканты и певица.Браво !!!

[@shirleyclemmer3299]

@@ВладимирТелепнев-х5ъ Sorry! Facebook is not offering a translation. What language is this?

[@MrGuto]

I bought this LP 40+ years ago. It’s been engrained in my mind, so much I listened to it. This is awesome to finally have the visual as well!

[@patmercier6424]

Saw her for our 10th Anniversary at the Molin Rouge. She is Amazing. A favorite 🎉

[@itamarazevedo4830]

I enjoy a lot this two big star thanks ,mr shaw simger from rio

[@hlqa7938]

WOW, jewels of art, wow, amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Людмила-ж9б2ф]

Ella is the great singer forever and nobody can repeat her and won't be able to do it.She 's unique..👌💪♥️♥️♥️

[@Englishman-t5o]

Two bright personalities, two celebrities of jazz music on the same stage❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️ Incredible👍👍🔥🔥👍 Jazz listening all around the world, and also in Ukraine. Thanks a lot for mastering of this performance. Hello from Ukraine (Poltava district, Beliki village)

[@ДмитрийШамбаров-ь6ш]

Minimum words. But how much energy life and happiness. Her voice understanding for every around a world. No need languages. It's Ella!!!!

[@LimitlessThinker]

I grew up hearing this music.

[@brianwells2380]

The perfect pairing of two of the greatest ever performers!

[@emilywolff1953]

Amazing Ella. I was 5 y.o. when my cousin introduce her to me. After then, I couldn't stop learning and listening E;lla. I already had piano at home, then went to music school, started to travel at age 13 singing jazz. I was really lucky with all my teachers. Then college of music and conservatory. Ella the best of the best. Love you lady.

[@RobertCarlBurns]

Love you too Emily wolf, got to find your song

[@giannilavezzi7026]

Wonderful lady Ella

[@EvgeniyaPetersMusic]

Лучшая из лучших!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@robkuiters]

The Count and miss Ella, a great combination live on Montreux Jazz

[@JulioHernandezCasado]

I love this swing, especially Basie's piano

[@nadia3025]

Oh preciosa!!⭐❤️

[@Lucypetuniaggm]

I try to imagine what it must be like to be in the shoes of these incredible musicians performing together, just cutting loose with all the raw joy & energy their talent generates in them & their audience. Who needs drugs when you can get high on Ella, Count Basie & his band.

[@PK-ht4xz]

this is the source and the effect of pure joy and happiness

[@elisavieira737]

Beautiful thanks

[@Nick-c6-n]

Да, Монтре фестиваль - это праздник уже ушедших гигантов джаза, таких как Элла, Каунт и многих других, оставивших неизгладимый след в истории джаза. Спасибо блогеру за память о великих...

[@TeezyGreenLantern]

Incredible performance!

[@cogitoergosum6614]

You'll just have to love her... the greatest lady of jazz.

[@alvaro5805]

The Queen of Jazz, The best of ALL time!!

[@Pepemarcaacme]

Not a doubt

[@debs4mysweetbaby]

The Queen!!

[@mara_koko]

Oh God, i do!!!!🤗🤗🤗

[@Michelle-7887]

The greatest indeed !

[@DrJonesJazzMore]

Count Basie rythm section is heaven! I love Freddie Green. The Trades were awesome

[@lf1496]

Not Freddie Green it's Eric Dixon

[@Swingtime-pn7gy]

​@@lf1496 It's Freddy!

[@andrewnielsen499]

⁠@@lf1496t

[@emilvanderpoorten6166]

Wow that's incredible!

[@ЮрийАлексан]

Спасибо Вам т. Элла ,какая вещь ваше исполнение ,прелесть

[@stephanie3506]

The BEST vocalist to ever do it!!!!

[@daveyboy731]

Magic two of the greatest its brilliant The Count AND Ella

[@lucianovalle7178]

Wonderful music woman! A real orchestra in her voice! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@goranradenkovic7860]

Fantastic 👍💜

[@juliosval]

¡Sencillamente maravillosa, espectacular, única e irrepetible cantante de jazz!

[@gertrudebuck366]

The Count Was Oh So Smooth!

[@thorodin555]

Festival de Montreux,merci.malheurement,je n’y étais pas😢❤

[@WolfgangHereth]

King and Queen

[@BlessStargazer2010]

Scat Queen Ella!

[@sotosong9182]

So brill!

[@teresacaetano5536]

Que privilégio a quem a viu ao vivo ❤

[@JAZZCLASSIQUE]

superb from beginning to end ! Kudos to some underrated musicians such as Eric Dixon, the former ellingtonian Mitchell Booty Wood, and Keter Betts on bass !

[@jamesmonahanmusic]

Amazing performance. ❤❤

[@victormiranda.123]

Todos!!!!! Excelentes, que Maravilla de Ella & La Orquesta para aplaudir una hora......

[@altamiropeixotoneto9212]

Acompanho Ella desde os anos 60 e fico impressionado como domina a voz com improvisos que poucas cantoras conseguem. Simplesmente a musa do jazz.

[@jacquelineblack9381]

My mom is 94 and still sings A tisket a tasket. Her favorite singer and could scat

[@ДильберГусейнова-Мамедова]

Это живая импровизация...живая!живая. Они вышли и без репетиций сыграли свинг! Какой сленг! Как музыканты свингуют! Инструментальный вокал бесподобен! Вот это мастер-класс! !!

[@tangabiang5282]

Thanks Ella!

[@greeneyes2797]

IS IT LIVE OR IS IT MEMOREX!!!!👌

[@tandemcompound2]

Ella is the tops, but then so is Basie and the Band. Nothing swings like that rhythm section.

[@jhall5846]

I will always love Ella Fitzgerald !!!

[@lisajolawrence5230]

I got to talk to her on the phone once and she wished me a Merry Christmas